Mr. Chair, I just want to mention that because of the nature of this expenditure, indeed, I would suggest that it goes far beyond what is available. It might actually be out of order. I don't think we have to get to this point.
I want to address Mr. McGuinty's comments and say to him that the United States does do some semblance of reporting. My understanding, though, is that it costs in the multi-millions of dollars. In fact, it's over $20 million a year to do such reporting. We have a thousand licensees in Canada, and I would suggest that economies of supply would not benefit us in any great degree even though they have more carriers there.
There's another issue that I don't want to see, and I'm sure Mr. Julian feels the same because of his comments before. When airlines are reporting on-time data and such things like that that are outside the market place, I'm worried about their compromise of safety. If they're in such a rush to be on time, such a rush to make sure bags are done right, such a rush to do everything according to the book, I'm concerned, because I fly quite a bit, about 6,000 kilometres a week. I'm quite concerned—as Mr. Julian would be, I would suggest—about the safety aspect of this.
I would hate to see a compromise of, indeed, the reporting of the safety just to make sure somebody's job is saved or just to make sure they look good in the annual report that is done by Transport Canada. That is a concern, I think. It's a reverse process from what Mr. Fast was saying, but I think it is relevant. Indeed, because of the additional expenditures, I would suggest that it might even be beyond the ability of this committee to put forward such a motion as Mr. McGuinty has.